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  2. List of ecclesiastical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Here may also be classed the abbreviated forms for the name of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost; also for the names of the Blessed Virgin, the saints, etc.; likewise abbreviations used in the administration of the Sacraments, mortuary epitaphs, etc. (to which class belong the numerous Catacomb inscriptions); finally some miscellaneous ...

  3. Mass (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    The congregation stands and responds: "May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands, for the praise and glory of His name, for our good, and the good of all His holy Church." The priest then pronounces the variable prayer over the gifts. Then in dialogue with the faithful the priest brings to mind the meaning of "eucharist", to give thanks ...

  4. Christian liturgy - Wikipedia

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    By 1962 the Liturgy Committee was able to prepare a number of Orders. They were Eucharist, Morning and Evening Prayer, Marriage Service, Burial Service, Ordination Service and Covenant Service (1954), Holy Baptism (1955) and Almanac (1955–56). The Book of Common Worship of the CSI was published in 1963 with all the above orders of service ...

  5. Marriage vows - Wikipedia

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    The priest will then say aloud "You have declared your consent before the Church. May the Lord in his goodness strengthen your consent and fill you both with his blessings. What God has joined, men must not divide. Amen." [6] Historically, in the Sarum Rite of the Catholic Church, vow of the wife reads as follows: [7]

  6. Glossary of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Body of Christ – A reference to (a) the Christian church as a whole, worldwide (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:12–14 and Ephesians 4:1–16), and/or (b) a name for the bread used in Communion/Eucharist to represent the physical body of Jesus sacrificed on the cross (cf. Luke 22:19, 20).

  7. Glossary of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Religious priest – see: Regular clergy (above) Rite to Being – the rite of being left alone to pray to Jesus Christ; Religious sister – see: Sister (below) Right of Option – a way of obtaining a benefice or a title, by the choice of the new titulary; Roman Catholic – the Roman rite of the Catholic Church.

  8. Marriage in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]

  9. Canonical digits - Wikipedia

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    During the lavabo, the priest washes the ends of the thumbs and index fingers, then wipes them with the manuterge. As he begins the rite of consecration , the priest wipes the thumb and index of each hand making a sign of the cross on the corporal saying " qui pridie quam pateretur " (at the time he was betrayed).